Business leaders battle Republican lawmaker in hospital-fee bill hearing

Business leaders battle Republican lawmaker in hospital-fee bill hearing Mar 29, 2016, 5:43pm MDT KATHLEEN LAVINE | DENVER BUSINESS JOURNAL Overcrowded highways like this stretch of C-470 near Yosemite would be a primary beneficiary of ....

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Bipartisan Hospital Provider Fee Bill Introduced At Colorado Capitol

Bipartisan Hospital Provider Fee Bill Introduced At Colorado Capitol By Megan Verlee on 03/29/2016 - 7:20am The Colorado State Capitol. (Hart Van Denburg/CPR News) State lawmakers introduced a bill Monday that would eliminate tax refunds ....

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Speaker: Talks on proposal to eliminate TABOR refunds at a stalemate

Speaker: Talks on proposal to eliminate TABOR refunds at a stalemate By Megan Schrader Updated: March 29, 2016 at 1:23 pm  Rep. Dickey Lee Hullinghorst of Boulder was nominated as majority leader during the Colorado ....

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Hospital provider fee bill introduced in Colorado Legislature — with Republican Senate sponsor

Colorado House Speaker Dickey Lee Hullinghorst introduced her anticipated bill to turn the hospital provider fee into an enterprise fund Monday with two twists — a Republican sponsor in the Senate and a companion bill ....

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Colorado’s provider ‘fee’: Even the federal government knows its a tax

March 25, 2016 12:22 PM· By Linda Gorman In 2009, the Democrats controlling Colorado state government wanted more money. Among other things, they wanted to expand Medicaid. They needed to increase state revenues. Their problem ....

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Colorado budget bill eliminates TABOR refunds, slashes spending

Hospitals and road construction take a hit, but budget writers warn it could have been far worse By John Frank The Denver Post (Denver Post file) Facing a money crunch, Colorado lawmakers resorted to extraordinary ....

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